This paper proposes a delay-dependent leader-following consensus condition of multi-agent systems with both communication delay and probabilistic self-delay. The proposed methods employ a suitable piecewise Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional and the average dwell time approach. New consensus criterion for the systems are established in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) which can be easily ...

As multi-agent systems grow in size and complexity, social networks that govern the interactions among the agents will directly impact system behavior at the individual and collective levels. Examples of such large-scale, networked multiagent systems include peer-to-peer networks, distributed information retrieval, and agent-based supply chains. One way of dealing with the uncertain and dynamic...

In several application domains ranging from automotive to aerospace (Garro, Groß, Riestenpatt Gen. Richter and Tundis, 2013; Falcone, Garro and Tundis, 2014; Garro, Groß, Riestenpatt Gen. Richter and Tundis, 2012; Garro and Tundis, 2012b; Garro and Tundis, 2012c; Garro, Tundis and Chirillo, 2011), a great variety of systems are currently designed and developed by organizing and integrating exis...

In the design of complex systems there is a great interest to know the relative importance of each of their elements. In this paper, we define a new method for measuring the relative importance of each element of the system. We have to specify that this paper concerns only nonrepairable systems and components. We present a way of calculating the criticality of each component for a complex syste...

Typically, multi-agent systems are designed assuming perfectly rational, self-interested agents, according to the principles of classical game theory. However, research in the field of behavioral economics shows that humans are not purely self-interested; they strongly care about whether their rewards are fair. Therefore, multi-agent systems that fail to take fairness into account, may not be s...

This paper introduces a multi-environment simulation framework for building self-organizing multi-agent systems. From an engineering point of view, the multienvironments approach brings the necessary modularity and separation of concerns to build self-organizing multi-agent systems that address hierarchy, interoperability and multi-aspects problems and domains. Our framework provides higher abs...

Self-organisation in nature is responsible for many complex and persistent phenomena. This suggests that self-organisation may be useful in the creation of complex applications. Multiagent systems use multiple agents to execute complex activities, and thus may be a basis for self-organising applications. In this paper we describe applications using self-organisation based upon the DIET multi-ag...

Distributed cooperative applications are now increasingly being designed as a set of autonomous entities, named agents, which interact and coordinate (thus named a multi-agent system). Such applications are often very dynamic: new agents can join or leave, they can change roles, strategies, etc. This high dynamicity creates new challenges to the traditional approaches of fault-tolerance. In thi...